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IT Management: CA's Growing Linux Apps Arsenal

"While many major software vendors embrace a specific platform,
Computer Associates, Inc. has focused on the middle ground --
breaking down the barriers between different platforms, managing
the heterogeneous enterprise or acting as middleware between
complex systems. Its products currently support everything from IBM
mainframes running zOS and OS/390 down to PDAs running Windows
CE.

"In keeping with this tradition, CA is now getting behind Linux
in a big way, adding 23 new Linux applications over the past three
months.

"'Unlike companies that add a Linux agent to a pile of products
and then loudly proclaim, 'We do Linux,' Computer Associates has
done the real work,' says Valerie O'Connell, managing director,
enterprise systems management, for Boston-based research firm
Aberdeen Group. 'The result is an offering for Linux that is
comparable to Computer Associates' capabilities in Windows 2000 and
Solaris...'